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The WikiProject Ice Cream is inactive and has been demoted to a task force as well as being re-tasked to the general topic of desserts. I need a bot to do a couple of things:
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|desserts=yes}}
bannerAt this time that is all I can think of, more will probably be coming later. --
Jeremy (
blah blah •
I did it!) 05:29, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
I placed a requested move notice on the page over a week ago as well as the parent project
WP:WikiProject Food and Drink and not a single member responded. There has been no change in its statistics in over six months, no response on its talk page in longer than that. The only changes that have occurred in the project have been ones I have made, or have made in conjunction with others in updating "back of house" things.
The changes I have requested for the bot to do have to with page categorization that are one the project page itself (
category:WikiProject Ice Cream articles) and the organization of the categories themselves and are not set through the banner. The banner changes are because I have deleted the WikiProject Ice Cream banner and redirected it to the WikiProject Food and Drink banner, both of which I created and maintain. --
Jeremy (
blah blah •
I did it!) 16:29, 15 December 2009 (UTC) It was done manually. --
Jeremy (
blah blah •
I did it!) 06:03, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello.
Would someone here be interested in reviving
User:ImageTagBot, a bot that adds and removes image captions notifying about deletion requests? The bot has shut down due to a post on its talk page, and Sam Korn is apparently MIA and doesn't reply to e-mails.
BRfAs
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Sambot 11 and
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Sambot 12, source code is linked to there, uses the Pillar framework and requires, I seem to remember, a toolserver account. I'm unsure of course whether the code posted there is up to date or not.
Thanks,
Amalthea 16:45, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello LCahill! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 14 of the articles that you created and 0 of the articles that you played a major role in creating, are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 944 page backlog. Here is a list:
<!-- unref-creator-messaged-2009-12-16 -->
) so it knows the article has already been processed, etc. -
Pointillist (
talk) 11:53, 16 December 2009 (UTC)This seems to be going in the right direction, but wouldn't it be simpler to limit it now to article creators who are still active, then go back in maybe 3 months and do another run on major contributors who are still active. This avoids the 2-column list thing which looks overbearing, especially when adding {{ findsources}}. There may be a lot of overlap between the two runs in terms of people getting messaged twice, but that's OK. The issue is not exclude too many articles where the creator is not active any more - to find at least one person who did something substantive and is still active. And yes, a hidden marker should be added. As for testing, I'm not sure how necessary that is, people more experienced with bots would know better. My concern would be making sure the testing doesn't introduce duplicate messages for some people. Rd232 talk 15:35, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Today I've seen lots of misprints in months' names like Auguat (nearly 15 pages), Septenber etc. Is it possible to launch a bot in order to correct this? Thanks-- Microcell ( talk) 10:23, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
In a large number of articles there are hidden links "Kehilla|Jewish community" or "Kehilla|Jewish communities". As Kehilla is a disambiguation page, this leads to Kehilla being currently the second most linked-to disambiguation page on Wikipedia [1]. Kehilla just means "Jewish community" in Hebrew, but it clearly has a more restricted meaning in English, see Kehilla (modern): "kehilla", "kehilla council", "kehilla executive", "kehilla president" etc. The bot should transform "Kehilla|Jewish community" into Jewish community (without [[]]) and "Kehilla|Jewish communities" into Jewish communities (without [[]]).-- Pylambert ( talk) 11:06, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Could some one add the |desserts=yes switch to the {{ WikiProject Food and drink}} banner in the articles listed under Category:Desserts? -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 05:59, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I would like to ad it to the sub cats.
The project this was derived from the former Ice Cream project that died due to apathy. When I requested comment on a merge proposal to bring it back into its parent group WP:Food, it went unanswered and it was merged. I have placed prominent notices on the main pages of the parent project and task force and there still has been no comment. I am hoping the more general topic of desserts will get more interested people involved, but with only 14 out of the 1200+ or so dessert articles tagged as such it would appear to outsiders that there would be nothing to look at. -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 19:46, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to categorise the many articles in Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit into major subject matter categories?
It turns out that we have about a hundred articles with "more then" instead of "more than": 1. An opportunity of fixing them manually doesn't inspire, is it possible to shift this labour onto one of bots? -- Microcell ( talk) 11:16, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}
A bot is needed to remove ~4500 transclusions of Template:R uncategorized, which should be deleted (once it is no longer transcluded) per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2009 December 1#Template:R uncategorized. The edit summary for the removals should link to the TfD log page. I checked the list at Wikipedia:Bots/Status but only find a few bots involved in template substitution and replacement, not removal. Thank you, – BLACK FALCON ( TALK) 07:11, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Okay, so the code for this is basically ready for a first run. I have the BRFA application ready. The limiting factor is getting community consensus and involvement. User:Black Falcon, the ball is entirely in your court on this. I've written the bot and will deal with the BRFA drama, but need you to find/notify interested parties. tedder ( talk) 08:52, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Done Looks like all instances of {{ R uncategorized}} have been removed from namespace:0. Tim1357 ( talk) 04:30, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} When WP:PUI was renamed to WP:PUF a large number of the subpages (logs of discussions) weren't moved to their correct name which causes some issues for templates such as Template:PUIresolved, So would it be possible to get a bot to mass move these pages to their correct naming, so for example Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2009 February 23 → Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2009 February 23. Thank you in advance, Peachey88 ( Talk Page · Contribs) 12:20, 18 December 2009 (UTC).
bing(To prevent archiving) 03:09, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 18:51, 27 December 2009 (UTC).
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}
I just wanted to alert any bot operators (or AWB users) to the "to orphan" section of WP:TFD/H. Our regular helper has been blocked, so any assistance would be appreciated. Once you are done, you can move them to the "to be deleted" section. If I can find some spare time I may do some myself. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:06, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
For Template:R uncategorized, see the related request at #Orphaning a template. – BLACK FALCON ( TALK) 22:05, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
There are many templates for various sports-related articles that have content that should use en dashes instead of hyphens as per WP:DASH. Unfortunately, many editors are not aware of this and use hyphens. Obviously, going through and replacing all instances of hyphens with en dashes is not practical as the bot would have to understand the context. However, for some of these templates, I believe that if we can specify which parameters should always have en dashes, then a bot can be programmed to ensure en dashes are always used. I have gone through many sports-related template and documented parameters that, I believe, should always have en dashes. A lot of these parameters, also contain text but I could not identify a situation where a hyphen would be used. Most of these are parameters that have scores, win-loss records or year ranges. Obviously, the first run of the bot will make a lot of changes. However, after that, I think a monthly run of the bot would suffice. If there is sufficient support for this bot, I will also ask various WikiProjects to add to the list if they have additional templates I may have missed (I'm almost positive I did not get them all). However, I think if this does become a bot, the bot operator needs to make it easy for him/herself to add and remove templates and parameters.
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This concept could even be applied to templates outside the realm of sports and used in templates where year ranges are specified and other scenarios. Thoughts?— NMajdan• talk 20:54, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
pastteams
, teams
, pastcoaching
, and pastadmin
parameters contain a team name followed by a year range, which should have an en dash. I can't think of a team that has a hyphen in the name, so I can't think of a scenario where a hyphen would be used in those parameters. I will add this template above. Thanks for the addition.—
NMajdan•
talk 20:22, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
I hope the number of templates that would be included in this bot emphasizes it's potential worth.— NMajdan• talk 16:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Sometimes editors specify dates in the YYYY-MM-DD format (for example, today is 2009-12-04). Changing from hyphens to n dashes should not occur for any such date. Also, if you stick to sports, you are probably safe, but if you extend your reach to other fields, like military conflicts, you might run into unusual calendars (Roman Republic, China, etc.) We cannot be sure the name of such a calendar will not contain a hyphen. -- Jc3s5h ( talk) 20:13, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
I think AWB is actually pretty smart about making this change as a General Fix, but it may only address birth and death dates. You might like to investigate that further. Rich Farmbrough, 01:24, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
Hi. Pursuant to my note of December 13th at the Bot owners' noticeboard, I'd very much like a bot that can help out at CP that is maintained by somebody who frequents the English Wikipedia who may be available to help out of when there are problems or when changes are needed to maintain efficient function. We need a bot to create a new page once a day for the copyright problems board with the standard transcluded information in it, transclude the new page to the bottom of Wikipedia:Copyright problems/NewListings and move the oldest listing there to Wikipedia:Copyright problems#Older than 7 days. Basically, I'd love to have something that can do what Zorglbot has been doing for us, but is either open for others to assist in maintaining or has a bot maintainer that is accessible.
If this isn't the appropriate place for this, I'd really appreciate some kind of pointers on other options. :) Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:46, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
←Here's what we need, if it's available.
Is this doable? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:41, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
{Copyright checking page <!-- Add your line below here in the form {subst:Copyvio entry|<pagename>|<source>|<reason>} --> |{Copyvio expanded|view={view|}|page=Peter Pan|from=www.jmbarrie.co.uk|reason=Its a reprint of the entire play|reported by=Rich Farmbrough|time=16:37|resolved=no} |{Copyvio expanded|view={view|}|page=.... }
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}
Whenever an editor adds the {{ Rescue}} tag to an article up for deletion, the name of the Article for Deletion (not the article) is automatically adds the templated AFD page name to the top of Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Current articles.
For example:
Thank you in advance :) Merry Christmas. Ikip 23:50, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Per this ANI thread, seeking a coder to look for unusual clusters of participation at recent BLP AFDs in terms of delete preferences and admin actions. A website recently surfaced which reportedly was being run by approximately two dozen people including administrators and may have been coordinating vote stacking campaigns. A statistical analysis may be able to determine whether there is substance to this story. Durova 386 04:22, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
I hope this is the right location to suggest a new technical feature to be added to Wikipedia or maybe something that a bot could do. I'll be brief: it might be useful to put a note a user's Talk page if his or her text inside an article has "{{ citation}}" right after it. It's logical to expect the user who added text to know where he or she read something that needs a citation. This won't always work, but if it's a single line of text that starts with a capital and such, Wikipedia should be able to give us information about who put it there. If there is a match, that user's Talk page could say: "A text (<text>) you added on <date> to the article <name> appears to need a citation. If possible, please try to help out." -- 82.171.70.54 ( talk) 14:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Can a bot please be scripted to remove all uses of non-free content outside the mainspace? We have a list here, and it has been over a thousand for a month. We do currently have a bot that removes them from the userspace, but I believe it ignores other spaces (it certainly ignores template space, for instance) but it rarely runs anyways. This is clearly a task suitable for a bot, as it really is non-negotiable- non-free content is only for the mainspace. If you'd rather replace than remove, an image like File:Red copyright.svg may be a suitable replacement. J Milburn ( talk) 20:30, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
I pre-parsed about 2000 articles with AWB that need {{WPSHIPS|class=Redirect}} placed on the talk page. I can mail the text file to whomever feels like taking this on. -- Brad ( talk) 22:44, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
A bot to find articles with reflist and amend to reflist|2 if the article includes more than a certain number of references.
I'd suggest a startpoint of a dozen. -- Dweller ( talk) 10:59, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
{{Reflist|3}}
with {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}
. It produces that same result on an "average" screen, but also provides flexibility if someone browses Wikipedia with a netbook or something else with a small screen. --
bender235 (
talk) 20:49, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
AKA all Wikipedia-Books located at (for example) Wikipedia:Books/Hello World should be moved (without redirects) at Books:Hello World, and the pages that linked to former location them be updated as well. (Don't forget talk pages, which should get the same treatment.)
The no redirect/link update is so everything's presented in a consistent manner (otherwise, it will be a very confusing, since there's too much things that can already be confused with Wikipedia-Books). Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 14:01, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Yeah I didn't think of external links. So let's keep the redirects. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 16:53, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! Tim1357 ( talk) 19:16, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
While there is a bot for SPI right now, User:SPCUClerkbot, it has been down for the past two weeks. Its owner has been contacted, but his person situation makes it unlikely that he will be able to respond soon. Is there any way someone could code a replacement bot (for moving between queues and archiving) while we wait for nixeagle to get back? I'd be able to offer any (non-coding) assistance that I could. Best regards, NW ( Talk) 17:58, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
I talked to some toolserver guys, they say that admins do have access to code on the toolserver. Tim1357 ( talk) 02:50, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Can someone post an Infusing Bot for the ever so popular game, "Guild Wars"? It would make small monks feel like big monks and put spikes in there place. This would'd be a economic advantage in anyway, only a competitive advantage in the PVP section. This would be really appreciated by monks everywhere :). ~trent (—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.150.77.185 ( talk • contribs) 19:58, 1 January 2010)
The list of Minor planets is seriously behind, over 10,000 minor planets behind. Humans just can't add them fast enough. We need a bot! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ace45954 ( talk • contribs) 02:21, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm currently requesting approval for a bot that will place a message on the talk page of any new namespace 0, 6, 10 or 14 article with ambiguous links. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/WildBot. Josh Parris 03:00, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Please send the articles in Category:Argentine Ministers of Finance to Category:Ministers of Finance of Argentina. They are not grouped toguether by people's nationality, but for the country's government they worked for. I have already done the work of importing the main article, subcategories and interwikis. MBelgrano ( talk) 00:59, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Template:Space telescopes has been moved to Template:Space observatories. Please replace {{ Space telescopes}} with {{ Space observatories}} in all the articles which use this template. Thanks. Cospmi ( talk) 04:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is allowed, but I was wondering if we could have a bot substitute {{DaGizza/Sg}}
, which is a cross-namespace redirect of a user signature template. The user is no longer using it, and if it were substituted, I could delete the redirect without breaking the links on the old talk pages. Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 16:21, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Since most elements have systematic categories, good book drafts can be made from them. The general structure of the books should be the following, uploaded at Book:Elementname:
{{saved book}} == Elementname == ===An overview=== ;Overview :[[Elementname]] ;Isotopes :[[Isotopes of elementname]] :[[Elementname-X]] :[[Elementname-X+1]] (all non-redirects of [[Category:Isotopes of elementname]] :[[Elementname-X+2]] :... ;Miscellany :[[Article 1]] :[[Article 2]] (All other articles of [[Category:Elementname]]) :[[Article 3]] :...
The talk pages of books should be tagged with
{{WBOOKS|class=}} {{WP Elements|class=book|importance=na}}
After this is done, {{
Wikipedia-Books|Elementname}}
should be added to the
Elementname and
Isotopes of elementname articles (at the top of the See also section [if not present, create it])We'll do it by hand, once the books have been reviewed, and in
Category:Elementname. I've set up the examples at
Book:Helium and
Book:Lithium (see also
Helium,
Lithium;
Category:Helium,
Category:Lithium).
Do this for elements 1–118. Previous discussion can be found here. Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:21, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
How about a bot where as soon as an admin or a bureaucrat protects an aricle, the bot places a small protection sign by the corner of the article. Would that work? Minimac94 ( talk) 17:37, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
tags when protection templates (and sometimes Wikipedia pages)(note:with the updated {{
Documentation}} protection templates are added automatically). I am the one working alongside
User:DumbBOT in cleaning
Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates, and the picture is not so good.
Debresser (
talk) 14:35, 7 January 2010 (UTC)There are for the moment some 14,000 articles [3] which are tagged as unsourced ( Category:Articles_lacking_sources and all categories one level down, i.e. the monthly cats) and belong to the category:living people, but which are not tagged as unreferenced BLPs ( Category:All unreferenced BLPs). Converting these can not introduce new errors (articles which are incorrectly tagged as unsourced, or incorrectly tagged as about living people, will remain erroneous of course). Since unsourced BLPs are a specific, higher priority subset of all unsourced articles, I believe changing the tags would be beneficial. Fram ( talk) 14:28, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I have created
Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Climate change task force. There are 100's of pages that need to be added to the task force. The {{
Environment}} WikiProject banner needs |climate change = yes
added to it. Can I get a bot to go this? The articles that need to be added to the task force are in
Category:Climate change and related categories. I can create a text file of the pages that need to be added if that helps. Cheers. --
Alan Liefting (
talk) - 19:42, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
The same addition will have to be done for the Sustainability task force but climate change is a priority at the mo. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 19:46, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Moved from ANI per request.
It appears that American Broadcasting Corporation, an incorrect redirect, is being used on up to 900 pages [4]. The correct name for the US version of ABC is American Broadcasting Company. If someone with a free bot could switch the incorrect redirect to the correct name on these 900 pages, it would be appreciated. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 02:50, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Bot requests go Wikipedia:Bot requests. Can you move this there? -- IP69.226.103.13 | Talk about me. 02:56, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Lots of editors know nothing about it. There should be someone with a bot already capable of this who can add it as a task, or there may be a bot already approved for this type of task, correcting redirects. Responses are usually within a day or so, also. -- IP69.226.103.13 | Talk about me. 03:07, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of placing this redirect into Category:Redirects from incorrect names and generalizing your task:
Any link linking to a redirect in
Category:Redirects from incorrect names ought to be changed to the redirect's target. If the link is piped, piping is to be preserved. If the link is unpiped, it should become piped (as necessary) to:
Any objections? Josh Parris 05:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I am cool with this. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 05:46, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
(Rearranged this after writing: generic first, then specific to ABC)
I expressed myself poorly, and have also had further time to think.
Any link linking to a redirect in Category:Redirects from incorrect names ought to be changed to the redirect's target. If the link is piped, piping is to be preserved. If the link is unpiped, it should replace that with:
Comments? Josh Parris 14:31, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
'[['old name['#'old section]['|'old pipe]']]' => '[['new namenew section][new pipe]']]'
{{
R from incorrect name}}
in old name page, if present, otherwiseUnfortunately, earlier I mixed exception processing with normal processing, which can confuse matters. This time for sure!
If the redirects are unreliable in any way, processing will exclude redirects that are (semantically) broken and require a human to fix:
Within an article containing a link to an incorrect name, if the link to the incorrect name includes a #section which doesn't exist in the target article, that link will not be processed. This is because the intended target of the link is unavailable, and now requires a human to fix it.
Whatever's left is reliable to work with. Any piping will be preserved. No piping will be added. Existing #section values will be retained. No #section values will be added.
The only change will be to the base link. For each link to a Redirect from incorrect name,
I hope that in removing all the weird cases for humans to fix, the bot task is now clear. Josh Parris 05:36, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Umm no → WP:NOTBROKEN Tim1357 ( talk) 01:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
User:Josh Parris/Redirects from incorrect names has the results of the run I made against the category of 706 entries. I think there needs to be a discussion about the use of this template, I'm not entirely sure it's correctly/consistently used. There were 40 uses of {{ R from incorrect capitalisation}} which is a redirect to {{ R from incorrect name}}; not an error. Errors found: 11 mis-uses of parameter1 (correct name), 6 redirects to non-existent #sections, and 18 instances of a redirect to a #section without matching use of parameter1 (the bulk of the report, as I tried to suggest an alternative redirect). Josh Parris 13:02, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I wrote WP:TFD about this and have gotten no reply. I wrote a bot to help with WP:TFD/H. Anyways, Id like some sort of response, so I asked here. The idea is, when a template needs to be orphaned, replaced, or substituted an admin would edit this page, summoning the bot into action. Thanks! Tim1357 ( talk) 00:40, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
We really should have a bot to do things like this. I spent nearly 4 hours cleaning up stray Bold texts, Italic texts, and link title over a span of over 250 articles this morning... Why isn't a bot doing all of this cleanup!? The Thing Editor Review 05:36, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Can I make a request for bot, for wiki in another language?
kurdish wikipedia needs some help, that I think its bot job.
If it isn't right place to make my request please help me to fine there, because we really need a bot.
add. info: we use arabic script, right to left text align.--
Marmzok (
talk) 10:20, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Deferred to User talk:Marmzok for further processing -- Xqt ( talk) 06:19, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can add project banners to article talk pages? This is for WikiProject Algae.
I would like the bot to first add the banners with a specific importance rating (High) to a list of articles that we have chosen for High importance algal species. If the article has another project banner with a class rating it should use the same class rating. If the banner is a WikiProject Plants banner it might need to combine the banners, but I would have to verify this first.
Then I would like the bot to add the banner to all organisms that list certain classes or phyla in their taxoboxes. If the article already has a class rating from another Wikipedia Project, it should use the same class rating; the bot should not use the same importance rating, however.
Is there already a bot already that does this?
-- 68.127.232.132 ( talk) 01:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Xenobot Mk V ( BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) can inherit classes as you requested. See User:Xenobot Mk V#Instructions. – xeno talk 14:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
The talk pages of books should be tagged with
{{WBOOKS|class=}} {{WP Elements|class=book|importance=na}}
After this is done, {{
Wikipedia-Books|Elementname}}
should be added to the
Elementname and
Isotopes of elementname articles (at the top of the See also section [if not present, create it])We'll do it by hand, once the books have been reviewed, and in
Category:Elementname. I've set up the examples at
Book:Helium and
Book:Lithium (see also
Helium,
Lithium;
Category:Helium,
Category:Lithium).
Do this for elements 1–118. Previous discussion can be found here. Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:21, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Many articles on British gameshows provide links to UKGameshows.com as a source. However, that site recently upgraded its software and changed its URL scheme. Old-style links look like this:
http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/Blockbusters http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/Lose_a_Million
(Note some have page/ and some don't.)
New-style links look like this:
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Blockbusters http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Lose_a_Million
There are over 400 of these - could the change be automated? -- Q4 ( talk) 14:00, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
http://www.ukgameshows.com/(page/%7C)index.php/
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/
Tim1357 ( talk) 16:08, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
It's a new year, but the same old crisis. Unfortunately, hundreds of pages link to the article on the current financial crisis, but do so through Financial crisis of 2007–2009. A redirect has been put in place there to the new article title; could a bot bring those outdated links up to date? 66.92.188.136 ( talk) 19:15, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Now that Full-date unlinking bot ( talk · contribs) has completed its job of delinking dates in article space, there are other instances where dates are linked:
1. in non-article space e.g.
2. linked solitary months have not been treated by the bot although the rationale for linking is the same as for dates in the vast majority of cases.
Would anyone care to do the job of de-linking these? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 10:12, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
}}{{#if:{{{accessdaymonth|}}}{{{accessmonthday|}}}{{{accessday|}}}{{{accessmonth|}}}{{{accessyear|}}}{{{day|}}}{{{access-date|}}}{{{dateformat|}}}|[[Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters|{{NAMESPACE}}
There are hundreds of pages that link to The Sun when they should link to The Sun (newspaper). The former page redirects to Sun after this requested move. The links that go to the wrong place should be fixed, but this task probably shouldn't be fully automated, in case there are some links that actually were meant to point to "Sun" or some other use of the term. Graham 87 00:55, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
As I discussed long-windedly at the village pump, there should be a standard format to make it easier to find lists of cities by population for a given nation. I propose two (or possibly three) major tasks be done by bot:
Names marked with a * could be modified before we start by consensus, but I didn't get any suggestions of alternate names from the village pump discussion linked above, so I'm just supplying my own best guess.
I have poor to moderate coding skills in several languages so my first choice would be to find an experienced 'bot author to mentor me through this process. - Regards, PhilipR ( talk) 04:43, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place, so feel free to move this if necessary.
I'm an administrator over at the Star Trek fanfic wiki, and we've got about 2,500 rank insignia images that need to be converted from .PNG to .png. Obviously, to do so manually would be a herculean task (one rank insignia image is used on about 150 different pages), so I was wondering if any of the members here who program bots would be willing to help us out.
All of the images are by one author, so they use one licensing template, so it should be easy enough for the bot to focus on them specifically (correct me if I'm wrong on any of this). Basically, what's needed is to go through the pages that link to the images and change the links to .png, while also moving the images themselves from .PNG to .png and deleting the redirects. Is that possible?
Also, I am putting in a similar request at several other wikis, so if you're willing to do it, please let me know but don't start working on it until I confirm it with you, as I'd rather not have anyone work on a bot and then be told that their efforts aren't needed. -- Kevin W. 19:45, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm at a complete loss. You guys will have to walk me through this. -- Kevin W. 20:18, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Image.PNG Image.png Image2.PNG Image2.png
I'd like a bot my bot can call to delete a talk-page that only my bot has contributed to. Extending that, I'd like a adminbot that honors any {{ db-author}} tagged page that has only one contributor. Josh Parris 23:21, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
I will be changing WildBot so that when a CSD tag is placed an article, WildBot will notice that and tag the article's talk page width db-G7 (if valid), and have this proposed bot delete it. That should make the talk page disappear before a human even evaluates the CSD. If the CSD is removed by anyone, WildBot will recreate the talk page, and the cycle will continue. Josh Parris 11:05, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
A couple of us have been doing some nuts and bolts work on the WP:WikiProject Children's literature. I have found that there are a lot of articles which have a category that fall under our project, such as Category:Series of children's books which have quite a few books that aren't tagged. There are literally dozens of categories. Is it proper to make such a request? If so how is the best way to communicate those categories? Barkeep49 ( talk) 16:30, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
I am sure many of you must have seen the recent requests for comment on biographies of living persons. Although it is too early to say for sure, it looks like one of the methods that will be adopted will the steady prodding of all unsourced BLPs. While this is perhaps necessary, it could be avoided if the articles were sourced instead. However, one issue is that there are simply not that many editors that know where to find articles that they actually care about. However, this could be easily remedied if there was a bot to notify relevant WikiProjects that one of their articles was being considered for deletion by this process. The message might go something along the lines of:
The following articles, which belong to your WikiProject, are being considered for deletion because they currently lack sources.
<list>
If you wish to save any of the following articles, please simply add a reliable source to the article and remove the
{{ prod blp}}
template.
Obviously, that message could use some work, but I wouldn't think that designing this bot would be too difficult. The bot could associate articles with WikiProjects using the talk page banners, and make one set of posts to the Projects' talk pages, updating the list, each day. Thoughts? NW ( Talk) 23:57, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Please forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I don't know anything about how these bots work, and I want to make sure I understand: Can the WP:AALERTS bot already provide Wikiprojects with lists of unreferenced BLPs that have been tagged by that project? -- JohnWBarber ( talk) 03:55, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
A bot should check all articles for ref tags like <ref>Ibid.</ref>
or <ref>Op. cit.</ref>
and place {{
Ibid}} (plus current date) in the "References" section for all positive returns. --
bender235 (
talk) 16:16, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am interested in a bot to automate moving main space articles from main space to a subpage of Wikipedia:Article Incubator also a subpage of wikiprojects.
Example using bob silly Johnson (flutist) :
Ikip 01:23, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
The goal is to filter for high-value unreferenced BLPs, to make referencing them a bit more efficient. • Ling.Nut 18:17, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
{{ Ideology-small}} has been deleted after the discussion that took place at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 January 9#Template:Ideology-small, which is now closed. A bot should remove it from the articles that still include it MBelgrano ( talk) 22:04, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
See discussion at: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Football_League&oldid=340216721#TEMPLATE_NEEDED:_Pre-draft_measurables
This bot request is to do one thing and possibly two.
Let me know, thanks... Timneu22 ( talk) 23:05, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
See discussion at: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Football_League&oldid=340216721#TEMPLATE_NEEDED:_Pre-draft_measurables
This bot request is to do one thing and possibly two.
Let me know, thanks... Timneu22 ( talk) 23:05, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I hope I'm requesting at the right place. I was wondering if it's possible for a bot to collect new articles added to WikiProject Primates (or recently tagged with {{ WikiProject Primates}}) and adding them to a page as a list. This information will be used to show cast the WikiProject's newest additions on the primates portal. Thanks, -- Zoo Fari 03:04, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia books are a bit unique in that redirects and disambiguation pages are potentially of disastrous consequences.
For example, if a book contains
and that Article 2 redirects to Article 1, what will be rendered/printed is
So it would be great if a bot could go through all books (every day/second day/week/month...?) and create a report on the talk page of the book. The bot should look for:
A sample report (for a hypothetical Book:Physics journals) could be something like:
Problems have been found in this book ( rev #123123123, 16:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)).
- Redirects
Please verify that redirects point to the intended targets. Consider updating the links, or piping them.
Section links
Linking to an article section will include the entire article.
- Duplicates
- Physical Review is present more than once, possibly because of redirects.
- Disambiguation pages
- Journal of Physics is a disambiguation page. Please update the link with the intended article.
- Redlinks
- Fictitious Journal of Physics does not exist. Please create it, or remove it from the book.
- Nonexistant Journal of Fluid Dynamics does not exist. Please create it, or remove it from the book.
BookProblemBot ( talk) 16:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
This should run on both community books and user books. Further tweaks could be made to the bot over time, once more problems are identified. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 16:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Having started work on the BRfA for this, I'm come to the conclusion that redirects ought not be a problem; they would be if they're a redirect to a disambiguation page, or if they create duplicates, but other than that they're a handy way of retitling a section of the book. Is this reasoning faulty? Josh Parris 04:52, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WildBot 5 Josh Parris 06:37, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Are there any bots which can search all the articles in a category and, if they do not contain an infobox template, tag their project box with |needs-infobox=yes ? I have tried to do this task manually but the sheer number of articles (I am looking to search and tag every article B class or under in WikiProject Children's Literature) means that it will take far too long to be practical. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 17:46, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
MZM recommended that I move this request from WT:DBR.
It would be nice if we could get a list of mainspace articles that possibly have bad usage of the "!" symbol (from vandalism, spam, unencyclopedic comments, etc).
[http://example.com Example Gaming! official site]
We'll definitely get false positives. But, if possible, I think a bot/report of this would be quite useful. I'm not great with bot-type stuff, so lemme know if this is an implausible idea. ;) Jamie S93 21:46, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Can you fix "ONE News" to "One News" (on plain text) or "One News (New Zealand)" (on the links)? I'll redirect ONE News to One News soon. JSH-alive talk • cont • mail 07:18, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
Occasionally, I go through Category:Pages with broken reference names to fix citation errors which were not fixed by AnomieBOT. Using WikiBlame, I search for the word "error" to specify which edit caused the citation error.
The bot I'm requesting would help by listing the edits that caused the citation error. Something like:
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 30 | Archive 31 | Archive 32 | Archive 33 | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | → | Archive 40 |
The WikiProject Ice Cream is inactive and has been demoted to a task force as well as being re-tasked to the general topic of desserts. I need a bot to do a couple of things:
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|desserts=yes}}
bannerAt this time that is all I can think of, more will probably be coming later. --
Jeremy (
blah blah •
I did it!) 05:29, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
I placed a requested move notice on the page over a week ago as well as the parent project
WP:WikiProject Food and Drink and not a single member responded. There has been no change in its statistics in over six months, no response on its talk page in longer than that. The only changes that have occurred in the project have been ones I have made, or have made in conjunction with others in updating "back of house" things.
The changes I have requested for the bot to do have to with page categorization that are one the project page itself (
category:WikiProject Ice Cream articles) and the organization of the categories themselves and are not set through the banner. The banner changes are because I have deleted the WikiProject Ice Cream banner and redirected it to the WikiProject Food and Drink banner, both of which I created and maintain. --
Jeremy (
blah blah •
I did it!) 16:29, 15 December 2009 (UTC) It was done manually. --
Jeremy (
blah blah •
I did it!) 06:03, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello.
Would someone here be interested in reviving
User:ImageTagBot, a bot that adds and removes image captions notifying about deletion requests? The bot has shut down due to a post on its talk page, and Sam Korn is apparently MIA and doesn't reply to e-mails.
BRfAs
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Sambot 11 and
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Sambot 12, source code is linked to there, uses the Pillar framework and requires, I seem to remember, a toolserver account. I'm unsure of course whether the code posted there is up to date or not.
Thanks,
Amalthea 16:45, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello LCahill! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 14 of the articles that you created and 0 of the articles that you played a major role in creating, are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 944 page backlog. Here is a list:
Articles you createdThis is a genuine list for this contributor, using {{ findsources3}}
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Articles you are a major contributor forThis just a sorted copy of the created list, using {{ findsources}}
|
<!-- unref-creator-messaged-2009-12-16 -->
) so it knows the article has already been processed, etc. -
Pointillist (
talk) 11:53, 16 December 2009 (UTC)This seems to be going in the right direction, but wouldn't it be simpler to limit it now to article creators who are still active, then go back in maybe 3 months and do another run on major contributors who are still active. This avoids the 2-column list thing which looks overbearing, especially when adding {{ findsources}}. There may be a lot of overlap between the two runs in terms of people getting messaged twice, but that's OK. The issue is not exclude too many articles where the creator is not active any more - to find at least one person who did something substantive and is still active. And yes, a hidden marker should be added. As for testing, I'm not sure how necessary that is, people more experienced with bots would know better. My concern would be making sure the testing doesn't introduce duplicate messages for some people. Rd232 talk 15:35, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Today I've seen lots of misprints in months' names like Auguat (nearly 15 pages), Septenber etc. Is it possible to launch a bot in order to correct this? Thanks-- Microcell ( talk) 10:23, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
In a large number of articles there are hidden links "Kehilla|Jewish community" or "Kehilla|Jewish communities". As Kehilla is a disambiguation page, this leads to Kehilla being currently the second most linked-to disambiguation page on Wikipedia [1]. Kehilla just means "Jewish community" in Hebrew, but it clearly has a more restricted meaning in English, see Kehilla (modern): "kehilla", "kehilla council", "kehilla executive", "kehilla president" etc. The bot should transform "Kehilla|Jewish community" into Jewish community (without [[]]) and "Kehilla|Jewish communities" into Jewish communities (without [[]]).-- Pylambert ( talk) 11:06, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Could some one add the |desserts=yes switch to the {{ WikiProject Food and drink}} banner in the articles listed under Category:Desserts? -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 05:59, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I would like to ad it to the sub cats.
The project this was derived from the former Ice Cream project that died due to apathy. When I requested comment on a merge proposal to bring it back into its parent group WP:Food, it went unanswered and it was merged. I have placed prominent notices on the main pages of the parent project and task force and there still has been no comment. I am hoping the more general topic of desserts will get more interested people involved, but with only 14 out of the 1200+ or so dessert articles tagged as such it would appear to outsiders that there would be nothing to look at. -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 19:46, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to categorise the many articles in Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit into major subject matter categories?
It turns out that we have about a hundred articles with "more then" instead of "more than": 1. An opportunity of fixing them manually doesn't inspire, is it possible to shift this labour onto one of bots? -- Microcell ( talk) 11:16, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}
A bot is needed to remove ~4500 transclusions of Template:R uncategorized, which should be deleted (once it is no longer transcluded) per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2009 December 1#Template:R uncategorized. The edit summary for the removals should link to the TfD log page. I checked the list at Wikipedia:Bots/Status but only find a few bots involved in template substitution and replacement, not removal. Thank you, – BLACK FALCON ( TALK) 07:11, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Okay, so the code for this is basically ready for a first run. I have the BRFA application ready. The limiting factor is getting community consensus and involvement. User:Black Falcon, the ball is entirely in your court on this. I've written the bot and will deal with the BRFA drama, but need you to find/notify interested parties. tedder ( talk) 08:52, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Done Looks like all instances of {{ R uncategorized}} have been removed from namespace:0. Tim1357 ( talk) 04:30, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} When WP:PUI was renamed to WP:PUF a large number of the subpages (logs of discussions) weren't moved to their correct name which causes some issues for templates such as Template:PUIresolved, So would it be possible to get a bot to mass move these pages to their correct naming, so for example Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2009 February 23 → Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2009 February 23. Thank you in advance, Peachey88 ( Talk Page · Contribs) 12:20, 18 December 2009 (UTC).
bing(To prevent archiving) 03:09, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 18:51, 27 December 2009 (UTC).
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}
I just wanted to alert any bot operators (or AWB users) to the "to orphan" section of WP:TFD/H. Our regular helper has been blocked, so any assistance would be appreciated. Once you are done, you can move them to the "to be deleted" section. If I can find some spare time I may do some myself. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:06, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
For Template:R uncategorized, see the related request at #Orphaning a template. – BLACK FALCON ( TALK) 22:05, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
There are many templates for various sports-related articles that have content that should use en dashes instead of hyphens as per WP:DASH. Unfortunately, many editors are not aware of this and use hyphens. Obviously, going through and replacing all instances of hyphens with en dashes is not practical as the bot would have to understand the context. However, for some of these templates, I believe that if we can specify which parameters should always have en dashes, then a bot can be programmed to ensure en dashes are always used. I have gone through many sports-related template and documented parameters that, I believe, should always have en dashes. A lot of these parameters, also contain text but I could not identify a situation where a hyphen would be used. Most of these are parameters that have scores, win-loss records or year ranges. Obviously, the first run of the bot will make a lot of changes. However, after that, I think a monthly run of the bot would suffice. If there is sufficient support for this bot, I will also ask various WikiProjects to add to the list if they have additional templates I may have missed (I'm almost positive I did not get them all). However, I think if this does become a bot, the bot operator needs to make it easy for him/herself to add and remove templates and parameters.
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This concept could even be applied to templates outside the realm of sports and used in templates where year ranges are specified and other scenarios. Thoughts?— NMajdan• talk 20:54, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
pastteams
, teams
, pastcoaching
, and pastadmin
parameters contain a team name followed by a year range, which should have an en dash. I can't think of a team that has a hyphen in the name, so I can't think of a scenario where a hyphen would be used in those parameters. I will add this template above. Thanks for the addition.—
NMajdan•
talk 20:22, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
I hope the number of templates that would be included in this bot emphasizes it's potential worth.— NMajdan• talk 16:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Sometimes editors specify dates in the YYYY-MM-DD format (for example, today is 2009-12-04). Changing from hyphens to n dashes should not occur for any such date. Also, if you stick to sports, you are probably safe, but if you extend your reach to other fields, like military conflicts, you might run into unusual calendars (Roman Republic, China, etc.) We cannot be sure the name of such a calendar will not contain a hyphen. -- Jc3s5h ( talk) 20:13, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
I think AWB is actually pretty smart about making this change as a General Fix, but it may only address birth and death dates. You might like to investigate that further. Rich Farmbrough, 01:24, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
Hi. Pursuant to my note of December 13th at the Bot owners' noticeboard, I'd very much like a bot that can help out at CP that is maintained by somebody who frequents the English Wikipedia who may be available to help out of when there are problems or when changes are needed to maintain efficient function. We need a bot to create a new page once a day for the copyright problems board with the standard transcluded information in it, transclude the new page to the bottom of Wikipedia:Copyright problems/NewListings and move the oldest listing there to Wikipedia:Copyright problems#Older than 7 days. Basically, I'd love to have something that can do what Zorglbot has been doing for us, but is either open for others to assist in maintaining or has a bot maintainer that is accessible.
If this isn't the appropriate place for this, I'd really appreciate some kind of pointers on other options. :) Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:46, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
←Here's what we need, if it's available.
Is this doable? -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:41, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
{Copyright checking page <!-- Add your line below here in the form {subst:Copyvio entry|<pagename>|<source>|<reason>} --> |{Copyvio expanded|view={view|}|page=Peter Pan|from=www.jmbarrie.co.uk|reason=Its a reprint of the entire play|reported by=Rich Farmbrough|time=16:37|resolved=no} |{Copyvio expanded|view={view|}|page=.... }
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}
Whenever an editor adds the {{ Rescue}} tag to an article up for deletion, the name of the Article for Deletion (not the article) is automatically adds the templated AFD page name to the top of Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Current articles.
For example:
Thank you in advance :) Merry Christmas. Ikip 23:50, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Per this ANI thread, seeking a coder to look for unusual clusters of participation at recent BLP AFDs in terms of delete preferences and admin actions. A website recently surfaced which reportedly was being run by approximately two dozen people including administrators and may have been coordinating vote stacking campaigns. A statistical analysis may be able to determine whether there is substance to this story. Durova 386 04:22, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
I hope this is the right location to suggest a new technical feature to be added to Wikipedia or maybe something that a bot could do. I'll be brief: it might be useful to put a note a user's Talk page if his or her text inside an article has "{{ citation}}" right after it. It's logical to expect the user who added text to know where he or she read something that needs a citation. This won't always work, but if it's a single line of text that starts with a capital and such, Wikipedia should be able to give us information about who put it there. If there is a match, that user's Talk page could say: "A text (<text>) you added on <date> to the article <name> appears to need a citation. If possible, please try to help out." -- 82.171.70.54 ( talk) 14:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Can a bot please be scripted to remove all uses of non-free content outside the mainspace? We have a list here, and it has been over a thousand for a month. We do currently have a bot that removes them from the userspace, but I believe it ignores other spaces (it certainly ignores template space, for instance) but it rarely runs anyways. This is clearly a task suitable for a bot, as it really is non-negotiable- non-free content is only for the mainspace. If you'd rather replace than remove, an image like File:Red copyright.svg may be a suitable replacement. J Milburn ( talk) 20:30, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
I pre-parsed about 2000 articles with AWB that need {{WPSHIPS|class=Redirect}} placed on the talk page. I can mail the text file to whomever feels like taking this on. -- Brad ( talk) 22:44, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
A bot to find articles with reflist and amend to reflist|2 if the article includes more than a certain number of references.
I'd suggest a startpoint of a dozen. -- Dweller ( talk) 10:59, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
{{Reflist|3}}
with {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}
. It produces that same result on an "average" screen, but also provides flexibility if someone browses Wikipedia with a netbook or something else with a small screen. --
bender235 (
talk) 20:49, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
AKA all Wikipedia-Books located at (for example) Wikipedia:Books/Hello World should be moved (without redirects) at Books:Hello World, and the pages that linked to former location them be updated as well. (Don't forget talk pages, which should get the same treatment.)
The no redirect/link update is so everything's presented in a consistent manner (otherwise, it will be a very confusing, since there's too much things that can already be confused with Wikipedia-Books). Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 14:01, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Yeah I didn't think of external links. So let's keep the redirects. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 16:53, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! Tim1357 ( talk) 19:16, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
While there is a bot for SPI right now, User:SPCUClerkbot, it has been down for the past two weeks. Its owner has been contacted, but his person situation makes it unlikely that he will be able to respond soon. Is there any way someone could code a replacement bot (for moving between queues and archiving) while we wait for nixeagle to get back? I'd be able to offer any (non-coding) assistance that I could. Best regards, NW ( Talk) 17:58, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
I talked to some toolserver guys, they say that admins do have access to code on the toolserver. Tim1357 ( talk) 02:50, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Can someone post an Infusing Bot for the ever so popular game, "Guild Wars"? It would make small monks feel like big monks and put spikes in there place. This would'd be a economic advantage in anyway, only a competitive advantage in the PVP section. This would be really appreciated by monks everywhere :). ~trent (—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.150.77.185 ( talk • contribs) 19:58, 1 January 2010)
The list of Minor planets is seriously behind, over 10,000 minor planets behind. Humans just can't add them fast enough. We need a bot! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ace45954 ( talk • contribs) 02:21, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm currently requesting approval for a bot that will place a message on the talk page of any new namespace 0, 6, 10 or 14 article with ambiguous links. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/WildBot. Josh Parris 03:00, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Please send the articles in Category:Argentine Ministers of Finance to Category:Ministers of Finance of Argentina. They are not grouped toguether by people's nationality, but for the country's government they worked for. I have already done the work of importing the main article, subcategories and interwikis. MBelgrano ( talk) 00:59, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Template:Space telescopes has been moved to Template:Space observatories. Please replace {{ Space telescopes}} with {{ Space observatories}} in all the articles which use this template. Thanks. Cospmi ( talk) 04:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is allowed, but I was wondering if we could have a bot substitute {{DaGizza/Sg}}
, which is a cross-namespace redirect of a user signature template. The user is no longer using it, and if it were substituted, I could delete the redirect without breaking the links on the old talk pages. Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 16:21, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Since most elements have systematic categories, good book drafts can be made from them. The general structure of the books should be the following, uploaded at Book:Elementname:
{{saved book}} == Elementname == ===An overview=== ;Overview :[[Elementname]] ;Isotopes :[[Isotopes of elementname]] :[[Elementname-X]] :[[Elementname-X+1]] (all non-redirects of [[Category:Isotopes of elementname]] :[[Elementname-X+2]] :... ;Miscellany :[[Article 1]] :[[Article 2]] (All other articles of [[Category:Elementname]]) :[[Article 3]] :...
The talk pages of books should be tagged with
{{WBOOKS|class=}} {{WP Elements|class=book|importance=na}}
After this is done, {{
Wikipedia-Books|Elementname}}
should be added to the
Elementname and
Isotopes of elementname articles (at the top of the See also section [if not present, create it])We'll do it by hand, once the books have been reviewed, and in
Category:Elementname. I've set up the examples at
Book:Helium and
Book:Lithium (see also
Helium,
Lithium;
Category:Helium,
Category:Lithium).
Do this for elements 1–118. Previous discussion can be found here. Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:21, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
How about a bot where as soon as an admin or a bureaucrat protects an aricle, the bot places a small protection sign by the corner of the article. Would that work? Minimac94 ( talk) 17:37, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
tags when protection templates (and sometimes Wikipedia pages)(note:with the updated {{
Documentation}} protection templates are added automatically). I am the one working alongside
User:DumbBOT in cleaning
Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates, and the picture is not so good.
Debresser (
talk) 14:35, 7 January 2010 (UTC)There are for the moment some 14,000 articles [3] which are tagged as unsourced ( Category:Articles_lacking_sources and all categories one level down, i.e. the monthly cats) and belong to the category:living people, but which are not tagged as unreferenced BLPs ( Category:All unreferenced BLPs). Converting these can not introduce new errors (articles which are incorrectly tagged as unsourced, or incorrectly tagged as about living people, will remain erroneous of course). Since unsourced BLPs are a specific, higher priority subset of all unsourced articles, I believe changing the tags would be beneficial. Fram ( talk) 14:28, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I have created
Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Climate change task force. There are 100's of pages that need to be added to the task force. The {{
Environment}} WikiProject banner needs |climate change = yes
added to it. Can I get a bot to go this? The articles that need to be added to the task force are in
Category:Climate change and related categories. I can create a text file of the pages that need to be added if that helps. Cheers. --
Alan Liefting (
talk) - 19:42, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
The same addition will have to be done for the Sustainability task force but climate change is a priority at the mo. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 19:46, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Moved from ANI per request.
It appears that American Broadcasting Corporation, an incorrect redirect, is being used on up to 900 pages [4]. The correct name for the US version of ABC is American Broadcasting Company. If someone with a free bot could switch the incorrect redirect to the correct name on these 900 pages, it would be appreciated. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 02:50, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Bot requests go Wikipedia:Bot requests. Can you move this there? -- IP69.226.103.13 | Talk about me. 02:56, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Lots of editors know nothing about it. There should be someone with a bot already capable of this who can add it as a task, or there may be a bot already approved for this type of task, correcting redirects. Responses are usually within a day or so, also. -- IP69.226.103.13 | Talk about me. 03:07, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of placing this redirect into Category:Redirects from incorrect names and generalizing your task:
Any link linking to a redirect in
Category:Redirects from incorrect names ought to be changed to the redirect's target. If the link is piped, piping is to be preserved. If the link is unpiped, it should become piped (as necessary) to:
Any objections? Josh Parris 05:26, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I am cool with this. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 05:46, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
(Rearranged this after writing: generic first, then specific to ABC)
I expressed myself poorly, and have also had further time to think.
Any link linking to a redirect in Category:Redirects from incorrect names ought to be changed to the redirect's target. If the link is piped, piping is to be preserved. If the link is unpiped, it should replace that with:
Comments? Josh Parris 14:31, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
'[['old name['#'old section]['|'old pipe]']]' => '[['new namenew section][new pipe]']]'
{{
R from incorrect name}}
in old name page, if present, otherwiseUnfortunately, earlier I mixed exception processing with normal processing, which can confuse matters. This time for sure!
If the redirects are unreliable in any way, processing will exclude redirects that are (semantically) broken and require a human to fix:
Within an article containing a link to an incorrect name, if the link to the incorrect name includes a #section which doesn't exist in the target article, that link will not be processed. This is because the intended target of the link is unavailable, and now requires a human to fix it.
Whatever's left is reliable to work with. Any piping will be preserved. No piping will be added. Existing #section values will be retained. No #section values will be added.
The only change will be to the base link. For each link to a Redirect from incorrect name,
I hope that in removing all the weird cases for humans to fix, the bot task is now clear. Josh Parris 05:36, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Umm no → WP:NOTBROKEN Tim1357 ( talk) 01:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
User:Josh Parris/Redirects from incorrect names has the results of the run I made against the category of 706 entries. I think there needs to be a discussion about the use of this template, I'm not entirely sure it's correctly/consistently used. There were 40 uses of {{ R from incorrect capitalisation}} which is a redirect to {{ R from incorrect name}}; not an error. Errors found: 11 mis-uses of parameter1 (correct name), 6 redirects to non-existent #sections, and 18 instances of a redirect to a #section without matching use of parameter1 (the bulk of the report, as I tried to suggest an alternative redirect). Josh Parris 13:02, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I wrote WP:TFD about this and have gotten no reply. I wrote a bot to help with WP:TFD/H. Anyways, Id like some sort of response, so I asked here. The idea is, when a template needs to be orphaned, replaced, or substituted an admin would edit this page, summoning the bot into action. Thanks! Tim1357 ( talk) 00:40, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
We really should have a bot to do things like this. I spent nearly 4 hours cleaning up stray Bold texts, Italic texts, and link title over a span of over 250 articles this morning... Why isn't a bot doing all of this cleanup!? The Thing Editor Review 05:36, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Can I make a request for bot, for wiki in another language?
kurdish wikipedia needs some help, that I think its bot job.
If it isn't right place to make my request please help me to fine there, because we really need a bot.
add. info: we use arabic script, right to left text align.--
Marmzok (
talk) 10:20, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Deferred to User talk:Marmzok for further processing -- Xqt ( talk) 06:19, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can add project banners to article talk pages? This is for WikiProject Algae.
I would like the bot to first add the banners with a specific importance rating (High) to a list of articles that we have chosen for High importance algal species. If the article has another project banner with a class rating it should use the same class rating. If the banner is a WikiProject Plants banner it might need to combine the banners, but I would have to verify this first.
Then I would like the bot to add the banner to all organisms that list certain classes or phyla in their taxoboxes. If the article already has a class rating from another Wikipedia Project, it should use the same class rating; the bot should not use the same importance rating, however.
Is there already a bot already that does this?
-- 68.127.232.132 ( talk) 01:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Xenobot Mk V ( BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) can inherit classes as you requested. See User:Xenobot Mk V#Instructions. – xeno talk 14:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
The talk pages of books should be tagged with
{{WBOOKS|class=}} {{WP Elements|class=book|importance=na}}
After this is done, {{
Wikipedia-Books|Elementname}}
should be added to the
Elementname and
Isotopes of elementname articles (at the top of the See also section [if not present, create it])We'll do it by hand, once the books have been reviewed, and in
Category:Elementname. I've set up the examples at
Book:Helium and
Book:Lithium (see also
Helium,
Lithium;
Category:Helium,
Category:Lithium).
Do this for elements 1–118. Previous discussion can be found here. Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:21, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Many articles on British gameshows provide links to UKGameshows.com as a source. However, that site recently upgraded its software and changed its URL scheme. Old-style links look like this:
http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/Blockbusters http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/Lose_a_Million
(Note some have page/ and some don't.)
New-style links look like this:
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Blockbusters http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Lose_a_Million
There are over 400 of these - could the change be automated? -- Q4 ( talk) 14:00, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
http://www.ukgameshows.com/(page/%7C)index.php/
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/
Tim1357 ( talk) 16:08, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
It's a new year, but the same old crisis. Unfortunately, hundreds of pages link to the article on the current financial crisis, but do so through Financial crisis of 2007–2009. A redirect has been put in place there to the new article title; could a bot bring those outdated links up to date? 66.92.188.136 ( talk) 19:15, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Now that Full-date unlinking bot ( talk · contribs) has completed its job of delinking dates in article space, there are other instances where dates are linked:
1. in non-article space e.g.
2. linked solitary months have not been treated by the bot although the rationale for linking is the same as for dates in the vast majority of cases.
Would anyone care to do the job of de-linking these? Ohconfucius ¡digame! 10:12, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
}}{{#if:{{{accessdaymonth|}}}{{{accessmonthday|}}}{{{accessday|}}}{{{accessmonth|}}}{{{accessyear|}}}{{{day|}}}{{{access-date|}}}{{{dateformat|}}}|[[Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters|{{NAMESPACE}}
There are hundreds of pages that link to The Sun when they should link to The Sun (newspaper). The former page redirects to Sun after this requested move. The links that go to the wrong place should be fixed, but this task probably shouldn't be fully automated, in case there are some links that actually were meant to point to "Sun" or some other use of the term. Graham 87 00:55, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
As I discussed long-windedly at the village pump, there should be a standard format to make it easier to find lists of cities by population for a given nation. I propose two (or possibly three) major tasks be done by bot:
Names marked with a * could be modified before we start by consensus, but I didn't get any suggestions of alternate names from the village pump discussion linked above, so I'm just supplying my own best guess.
I have poor to moderate coding skills in several languages so my first choice would be to find an experienced 'bot author to mentor me through this process. - Regards, PhilipR ( talk) 04:43, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place, so feel free to move this if necessary.
I'm an administrator over at the Star Trek fanfic wiki, and we've got about 2,500 rank insignia images that need to be converted from .PNG to .png. Obviously, to do so manually would be a herculean task (one rank insignia image is used on about 150 different pages), so I was wondering if any of the members here who program bots would be willing to help us out.
All of the images are by one author, so they use one licensing template, so it should be easy enough for the bot to focus on them specifically (correct me if I'm wrong on any of this). Basically, what's needed is to go through the pages that link to the images and change the links to .png, while also moving the images themselves from .PNG to .png and deleting the redirects. Is that possible?
Also, I am putting in a similar request at several other wikis, so if you're willing to do it, please let me know but don't start working on it until I confirm it with you, as I'd rather not have anyone work on a bot and then be told that their efforts aren't needed. -- Kevin W. 19:45, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm at a complete loss. You guys will have to walk me through this. -- Kevin W. 20:18, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Image.PNG Image.png Image2.PNG Image2.png
I'd like a bot my bot can call to delete a talk-page that only my bot has contributed to. Extending that, I'd like a adminbot that honors any {{ db-author}} tagged page that has only one contributor. Josh Parris 23:21, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
I will be changing WildBot so that when a CSD tag is placed an article, WildBot will notice that and tag the article's talk page width db-G7 (if valid), and have this proposed bot delete it. That should make the talk page disappear before a human even evaluates the CSD. If the CSD is removed by anyone, WildBot will recreate the talk page, and the cycle will continue. Josh Parris 11:05, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
A couple of us have been doing some nuts and bolts work on the WP:WikiProject Children's literature. I have found that there are a lot of articles which have a category that fall under our project, such as Category:Series of children's books which have quite a few books that aren't tagged. There are literally dozens of categories. Is it proper to make such a request? If so how is the best way to communicate those categories? Barkeep49 ( talk) 16:30, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
I am sure many of you must have seen the recent requests for comment on biographies of living persons. Although it is too early to say for sure, it looks like one of the methods that will be adopted will the steady prodding of all unsourced BLPs. While this is perhaps necessary, it could be avoided if the articles were sourced instead. However, one issue is that there are simply not that many editors that know where to find articles that they actually care about. However, this could be easily remedied if there was a bot to notify relevant WikiProjects that one of their articles was being considered for deletion by this process. The message might go something along the lines of:
The following articles, which belong to your WikiProject, are being considered for deletion because they currently lack sources.
<list>
If you wish to save any of the following articles, please simply add a reliable source to the article and remove the
{{ prod blp}}
template.
Obviously, that message could use some work, but I wouldn't think that designing this bot would be too difficult. The bot could associate articles with WikiProjects using the talk page banners, and make one set of posts to the Projects' talk pages, updating the list, each day. Thoughts? NW ( Talk) 23:57, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Please forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I don't know anything about how these bots work, and I want to make sure I understand: Can the WP:AALERTS bot already provide Wikiprojects with lists of unreferenced BLPs that have been tagged by that project? -- JohnWBarber ( talk) 03:55, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
A bot should check all articles for ref tags like <ref>Ibid.</ref>
or <ref>Op. cit.</ref>
and place {{
Ibid}} (plus current date) in the "References" section for all positive returns. --
bender235 (
talk) 16:16, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am interested in a bot to automate moving main space articles from main space to a subpage of Wikipedia:Article Incubator also a subpage of wikiprojects.
Example using bob silly Johnson (flutist) :
Ikip 01:23, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
The goal is to filter for high-value unreferenced BLPs, to make referencing them a bit more efficient. • Ling.Nut 18:17, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
{{ Ideology-small}} has been deleted after the discussion that took place at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 January 9#Template:Ideology-small, which is now closed. A bot should remove it from the articles that still include it MBelgrano ( talk) 22:04, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
See discussion at: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Football_League&oldid=340216721#TEMPLATE_NEEDED:_Pre-draft_measurables
This bot request is to do one thing and possibly two.
Let me know, thanks... Timneu22 ( talk) 23:05, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
See discussion at: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Football_League&oldid=340216721#TEMPLATE_NEEDED:_Pre-draft_measurables
This bot request is to do one thing and possibly two.
Let me know, thanks... Timneu22 ( talk) 23:05, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I hope I'm requesting at the right place. I was wondering if it's possible for a bot to collect new articles added to WikiProject Primates (or recently tagged with {{ WikiProject Primates}}) and adding them to a page as a list. This information will be used to show cast the WikiProject's newest additions on the primates portal. Thanks, -- Zoo Fari 03:04, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia books are a bit unique in that redirects and disambiguation pages are potentially of disastrous consequences.
For example, if a book contains
and that Article 2 redirects to Article 1, what will be rendered/printed is
So it would be great if a bot could go through all books (every day/second day/week/month...?) and create a report on the talk page of the book. The bot should look for:
A sample report (for a hypothetical Book:Physics journals) could be something like:
Problems have been found in this book ( rev #123123123, 16:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)).
- Redirects
Please verify that redirects point to the intended targets. Consider updating the links, or piping them.
Section links
Linking to an article section will include the entire article.
- Duplicates
- Physical Review is present more than once, possibly because of redirects.
- Disambiguation pages
- Journal of Physics is a disambiguation page. Please update the link with the intended article.
- Redlinks
- Fictitious Journal of Physics does not exist. Please create it, or remove it from the book.
- Nonexistant Journal of Fluid Dynamics does not exist. Please create it, or remove it from the book.
BookProblemBot ( talk) 16:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
This should run on both community books and user books. Further tweaks could be made to the bot over time, once more problems are identified. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 16:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Having started work on the BRfA for this, I'm come to the conclusion that redirects ought not be a problem; they would be if they're a redirect to a disambiguation page, or if they create duplicates, but other than that they're a handy way of retitling a section of the book. Is this reasoning faulty? Josh Parris 04:52, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WildBot 5 Josh Parris 06:37, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Are there any bots which can search all the articles in a category and, if they do not contain an infobox template, tag their project box with |needs-infobox=yes ? I have tried to do this task manually but the sheer number of articles (I am looking to search and tag every article B class or under in WikiProject Children's Literature) means that it will take far too long to be practical. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 17:46, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
MZM recommended that I move this request from WT:DBR.
It would be nice if we could get a list of mainspace articles that possibly have bad usage of the "!" symbol (from vandalism, spam, unencyclopedic comments, etc).
[http://example.com Example Gaming! official site]
We'll definitely get false positives. But, if possible, I think a bot/report of this would be quite useful. I'm not great with bot-type stuff, so lemme know if this is an implausible idea. ;) Jamie S93 21:46, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Can you fix "ONE News" to "One News" (on plain text) or "One News (New Zealand)" (on the links)? I'll redirect ONE News to One News soon. JSH-alive talk • cont • mail 07:18, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
Occasionally, I go through Category:Pages with broken reference names to fix citation errors which were not fixed by AnomieBOT. Using WikiBlame, I search for the word "error" to specify which edit caused the citation error.
The bot I'm requesting would help by listing the edits that caused the citation error. Something like: